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Missouri comprimise is created
Said that no states can be made slave states above the bottom of missouri -
Compromise of 1850
Made it so that California was able to enter the union as a free state. The rest of the mexican cession was divided into two territories-utah and new mexico- where the question of whether to allow slavery would be decided by popular sovereignty -
Fugitive Slave Act is passed
Act made it a crime to help a runaway slave and allowed officails to arrest those slaves in free areas -
Uncle Tom's Cabin is published
Anti-slavery novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe -
Kansas-nebraske act
an act that would divide the remainder of the louisiana purchase into two territories- kansas and nebraska- and allow people in each territory to decide on the question of slavery using popular sovereignty -
Dred Scott decision in supreme court
Case where a black man by the name of dred scott sued for his freedom and eventually loss in the supreme cour -
John Brown's raid on Harper's ferry.
Began when John brown and his men took over the arsenal in Harper's Ferry, Virginia, in hopes of starting a slave rebellion -
South Carolina secedes from the US
South Carolina secedes after lincoln is named president which shows that the south no longer has and national power. -
Lincoln takes office
final event that led to most of the slave states to seceding and starting the civil war -
Battle at fort sumter
The spark that started the civil war, fort sumter was a federal outpost in charleston, SC, that was attacked by confederate troops. -
first battle of bull run
First major battle of the civil war, and the confederate's victory. the battle is also know as the first battle of Manassas. this battle shattered the North's hope of winning the war quickly -
battle of antietam
AKA the battle of sharpsburg, was the bloodiest single-day battle of the civil war, and of US history -
Emancipation proclamtion
a military order that freed slaves in areas only controlled by the CSA -
battle of vicksburg
General grant's troops began a siege on vicksburg, eventually gaining control of the city -
battle of gettysburg
key battle that finally turned the tide against the confederates -
Sherman's march to the sea
Sherman's path of victory that gave Atlanta, GA, Savannah, Ga, Wilmington, NC, and Raleigh, NC to the Union. -
Confederacy surrenders at appotattox courthouse
lee surrendered to grant to end the civil war -
Reconstruction Begins
Process of readmitting the former Confederate States to the Union -
Abraham Lincoln is Assasinated
President Lincoln and his wife attended a play at Ford's Theater in D.C., during the play, John Wilkes Booth, a southerner who opposed Abe's policies, sneaked into the theater box and shot him.
